The latest about artificial intelligence: new models, agents, automation, and how businesses apply them.
OpenAI will offer GPT-6 Astra and cheaper Sol and Luna models through Google Cloud Model Garden, with billing via existing cloud commitments.
Blackstone, with $1.3 trillion in assets, says AI infrastructure debt is backed by hyperscalers despite CoreWeave owing $50 billion.
Year-old Flapping Airplanes raised a $1 billion Series A at a $6 billion valuation to build data-efficient training.
Microsoft Research says Xinzhi Zhang and Zhao Song proved the 1995 KLS conjecture with human-directed AI agents and a 140-page paper.
Eindhoven startup Photon Bridge raised €10M to develop laser sources for optical links, with first samples planned for 2027.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented the DSX Pod modular data center in Berlin, deployable in 14 days, plus robotics and AI agents.
The US Department of Homeland Security ordered federal agencies to remove DeepSeek products, while Beijing accused Washington of overusing national security.
Reach Capital raised a $265 million fifth fund, lifting assets to nearly $1 billion to back about 50 early teams across learning, health and work.
Claude generated 318,484 binder designs against five scorpion toxins, with 17 of 211 lab-tested candidates meeting the criteria.
DeepSeek released DeepInfer, the engine behind V4.1 Flash, reporting 155 trillion tokens per day, 96% cache hits and $38 revenue per accelerator-hour.
Generative AI is used by 243 million people in Southeast Asia, pushing the digital economy to $368 billion in 2026 toward $1 trillion by 2035.
TornadoVM 7.3 accelerates Java on GPUs via CUDA, Metal and multi-GPU execution, plus a new jitLLM inference engine.